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DOH! Thoughts on BGP and Shared Hosting Environments


From: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris () bblabs com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:12:37 -0700


DOH!

I meant split a /20 into a /21, been a long week, sorry.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Cappuccio [mailto:chris () dqc org]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:14 PM
To: Christopher J. Wolff
Subject: Re: Thoughts on BGP and Shared Hosting Environments


My first suggestion would be to note that there is no way you can
split a /20 into two /19s, but you can very easily split a /19 into two
/20s.  Maybe you should rethink your strategy.

Christopher J. Wolff [chris () bblabs com] wrote:

Had an interesting situation yesterday.

Received a new /20 allocation.
Split it into /19's and advertised it to two separate backbones via two
separate routers.

Users on the new /19's could get to about 75% of the available web hosts
on
the internet.

I removed the /19's and advertised the entire /20 out of both servers,
problem resolved.

Any suggestions?

Also, what are the groups opinions on web hosting customers who want to
install custom ASP and COM components on a shared Windows 2000/IIS hosting
server?  I'm having a debate with a sales dude over this issue.

My opinion is that it potentially destabilizes all of the virtual hosts on
that system.  When I hear "Can you install just a couple of ASP or COM
components on my domain" my mind immediately goes to putting this customer
in their own dedicated colo server.  I don't think its right to jeopardize
several hundred virtual domains because one $19.99/month customer wants to
load up a special .dll.  But that's just my rant, market conditions can
dictate otherwise.

Regards,
Christopher J. Wolff, VP, CIO
Broadband Laboratories, Inc.
http://www.bblabs.com
email:chris () bblabs com
phone:520.622.4338 x234


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Rev. Chris Cappuccio
http://www.dqc.org/~chris/


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